American Sign Language performers didn't appear at all during the Super Bowl national anthem broadcast last year, following the trend of more than a decade of little to no screen time.
The big picture: Disability rights and visibility are under attack by the Trump administration as part of its anti-DEI policies during the first few weeks of the new term.
The big picture: Watching the big game is on the rise with 65% of consumers planning to watch — up from 61% in 2024 — according to a Numerator survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter was sentenced to almost five years in federal prison Thursday for stealing nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball star, the Department of Justice said.
The big picture: Ippei Mizuhara, who worked alongside Ohtani as a Japanese-language translator since the star's MLB debut in 2018, pleaded guilty in June to making unauthorized transfers from the player's bank account to pay off gambling debts.
